Title : In Search of King Solomon's Mines - Tahir Shah - book Summary : After having us explore, in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the most secret backstage of Indian magic, the tireless globetrotter Tahir Shah invites us on an equally unusual and eventful journey to Ethiopia. The object of this unorthodox wandering in one of the least known countries in the world today? The search for the legendary mines of King Solomon, which, for centuries, haunted the dreams of adventurers and fired the imagination of novelists. "Ethiopia," Tahir Shah is careful to point out in the foreword to his book, "is a country surrounded by mountains and prejudices." But these will soon be shattered by the realities that he and his two companions, a Christian and an alcoholic chauffeur, discover from town to village, from green countryside to deadly deserts, and from gold deposits to cursed mountains. For the search for Solomon's mines is above all the occasion for a fabulous journey, with often irresistibly comical twists and turns, and a thorough exploration of an Ethiopia that remains unknown to the rare tourists who venture there like diplomats and politicians naively trying to influence its destiny. And here, Tahir Shah's insatiable curiosity and his taste for the unusual work wonders, as do his frenzied verve and his rare talent as a storyteller. EAN : 9782877064620 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sorcerer's Apprentice - In the Heart of Mysterious India - Tahir Shah - book Summary : India is a land of miracles, where "holy men" and mystics mesmerize their audiences with astonishing magic tricks. In major cities and remote villages alike, these earthly incarnations of the deity transform wands into snakes, drink acid, eat glass, hibernate, and even practice levitation. Born in 1966, Tahir Shah is an ethnologist already well-known for his work on the Near East, Central Asia, South America and Africa. It was as a child in the English countryside that he learned the first secrets of illusionism from an Indian magician. More than twenty years later, he set out in search of this magician, the traditional guardian of the tomb of his great-grandfather, an illustrious Afghan warlord. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the story of this quest and the author's initiation into the world of India's "holy men," sadhus , magi, and sages, throughout a journey that took him from Calcutta to Madras, and from Bangalore to Bombay, in search of the magical, unusual, and secret world that lies behind modern India. EAN : 9782877064118 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Origins of Man, Origins of a Man - Yves Coppens - book Summary : Eighty years of memories, encounters, travels, initiatives, results, successes, joys, lots of little pleasures and tiny misfortunes, great dazzlements. Paleoanthropology and archaeology have the scientific and philosophical duty to reconstruct the history of man; they have demonstrated that our roots were animal, proven our kinship with the great apes, declared our unique, tropical and African origin, shown the logic of our progressive deployment throughout the world, and explained how consciousness and knowledge have little by little given to this strange little mammal that we are behavioral traits that had not yet emerged throughout the 4 billion years of life history and which are free will and freedom, responsibility and dignity. » YC Through his own Memoirs, and in the light of the most fundamental discoveries that punctuated his life, Yves Coppens presents us here with the Memoirs of Humanity, combining the knowledge of the scientist, his humanity and the talent of the writer. EAN : 9782738136053 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Music - Michel Serres - book Summary : Where does Music spring from? From the sounds of the world? From the clamour of assemblies? From our emotions? And how can we define it? Nothing is more difficult than answering these questions. I preferred to describe it in three tales. Legendary, the first follows the life of Orpheus, his initiation with the Bacchantes and the Muses, then his plunge into the Underworld in search of Eurydice, his lover. How can we love in Music? Autobiographical, the second invades the Great Narrative of knowledge, which here becomes a Great Symphony. Can we think in Music? Finally, biblical, the last psalmody, from Genesis to the Nativity. Should we pray in Music? EAN : 9782746505452 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : World News - Michel Serres - book Summary : Another of my friends lived with his family in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto Zoo; only a fence separated the cages from his house. Arriving before the sun rose, the earthquake, therefore, made its usual chthonic noise, comparable to the lowest notes of a great organ, accompanied by the banging sounds resulting from the collapses, falls, and destruction of all things, but above all, there, by the hubbub or confused hubbub of animals panicked by the shock: lions, gorillas, tigers, camels, reptiles, ibexes, vertebrates of all kinds and birds of all feathers roared, hissed, howled, bellowed, blatered, whistled, chirped, bellowed like a strange jungle returned to the natural anxieties of the earth. Will anyone believe it? Accustomed to their slavery and as if drugged with immobility, the animals did not leave the pit, cage, or aviary, even when the barriers were dismantled. They howled without moving, as if waiting for the gates to return, blind to their presence and therefore to their disappearance." In these News from the World, landscapes play as central a role as stories and people. Each story is born from the shared life of women and men with a country that amazes them, and which in return they enchant. Thus, believing he is writing a landscape, the storyteller tells the universe, and, in giving news of such a person, he tells of everyone. EAN : 9782080355430 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Bed of Hawthorn - Jean Anglade - book Summary : At the beginning of the 20th century, a mother's love for her three boys with very different destinies: one becomes a priest, another an officer, the third a pimp. Viverols, a mountain commune surrounded by woods and pastures, on the borders of four provinces: Auvergne, Forez, Velay, Vivarais. In 1902, a Corsican gendarme, Pancrace Cervoni, was appointed brigade chief there. He married a young, almost illiterate peasant woman, Tiennette Farigoule, whose mother claimed to be a descendant of the Dauphin Louis XVII, who had escaped from the Temple and taken refuge in the region. They had three sons together. The first would become a priest, the second an officer, and the third a pimp. But, unconcerned by these dissimilar careers, Tiennette harbored an equal and passionate love for them, ready for any indulgence. With In A Bed of Hawthorn, Jean Anglade tells us the captivating and multi-coloured, burlesque and moving story of this 'Mother Goriot' and her three sons. EAN : 9782258091559 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Such a Great Love - Danielle Steel - book Summary : Edwina Winfield, the eldest daughter of a wealthy American family, embarks with her parents, five siblings, and fiancé aboard the largest ocean liner ever built. An unsinkable building, a masterpiece of modern technology, christened the Titanic ... The gigantic ship prepares to make its first Atlantic crossing in a festive atmosphere, and the young engaged couple are overjoyed by the voyage. But fate has decided otherwise, and what was supposed to be a cruise of happiness descends into horror and despair. The Titanic sinks... In a single fatal and tragic night, somewhere in the middle of the ocean, all of Edwina's dreams are reduced to nothing. Overnight, the carefree young girl becomes at once a woman mourning her lost love, a second mother to her younger brothers and sisters, and the owner of the newspaper founded by her father in San Francisco. Edwina rises to the challenge with exceptional courage and strength of mind. Twelve long years later, an encounter with a man will mark a new turning point in her life. EAN : 9782744115042 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Country Reinvented - Isabel Allende - book Summary : In this story published on the thirtieth anniversary of Allende's fall, Isabel Allende tells us about Chile—her Chile, an invented country, imagined in exile. The author interweaves her country's geography, history, culture, and mentalities with memories and personal thoughts, retracing her entire life. Her extravagant family, childhood, encounters, and travels are all windows that open onto the reality of a country and a people, as well as the origins of a novel. Some dates in the author's life: 1942: Born in Lima. Her father, Salvador Allende's first cousin, a cultured, dandy, and bohemian man, was an embassy secretary there. 1945: Her mother annulled her marriage and returned to Chile with her three children. 1953: Her mother remarried a diplomat. They were posted to Bolivia and then Lebanon. 1962: Isabel marries Miguel Frias; they have a daughter, Paula, and travel to Europe. 1966: Returns to Chile and the birth of her son, Nicolas. 1970: Salvador Allende is elected president of the republic. Isabel works for television in Santiago. 1973: September 11, coup d'état; officially, the President has committed suicide. 1975: Threats weigh on the family. They leave for Venezuela, where they will live for thirteen years. 1982: Publication of The House of the Spirits. 1987: Divorce, then meet her current husband, they settle in California. 1990: Democracy is restored in Chile; Isabel receives the Gabriela Mistral Prize from the President. EAN : 9782246654414 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Man and Myths - Jean-Pierre Hammel - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782218064289 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Historical Dictionary - Vallaud Dominique - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782286108090 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The King's Daughters - Colette Piat - book Summary : A historic event that forever changed Quebec and France In 1759, a major battle raged on the Plains of Abraham, near Quebec City. It pitted the French colonists, who were defending the besieged city, against the attacking British army. The reader thus discovers the end of New France and the beginning of the British conquest through the correspondence of a surgeon from Quebec and his sister Marie, a reader at the Court of Versailles. These two passionate hearts recount the adventures into which History takes them. Throughout their lives, they encounter key figures of the era. EAN : 9782744128103 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Russian Tsars - the Rioriks the Romanovs - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9785938936997 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Angèle's Clogs - Coulonges Georges - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2724267559 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Riders of the Veld - Michel de Saint Pierre - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2226027815 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Beauty of Louisiana - Jacqueline Monsigny - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782246364429 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pétain my prisoner - Joseph Simon - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782259003865 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great South - ADG - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782709606486 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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